Who first discovered cells?

Also to know is, who are the 5 scientists who discovered cells?

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• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek. *Dutch scientist.
• Robert Hooke. *Looked at cork under a microscope.
• Matthias Schleiden. *1838-discovered that all plants are made of cells.
• Theodore Schwann. *1839-discovered that all animals are made of cells.
• Ruldolf Virchow. * Lived from 1821-1902.

how did Hooke discover cells?

Robert Hooke (July 18, 1635–March 3, 1703) was a 17th-century "natural philosopher"—an early scientist—noted for a variety of observations of the natural world. But perhaps his most notable discovery came in 1665 when he looked at a sliver of cork through a microscope lens and discovered cells.

He realized that living cells produce new cells through division. Based on this realization, Virchow proposed that living cells arise only from other living cells. The ideas of all three scientists — Schwann, Schleiden, and Virchow — led to cell theory, which is one of the fundamental theories unifying all of biology.